Re: Set SESTL.ini

This probably isn't much help to you but I can confirm the same behaviour on my machine. I also manually changed the units it the sestl.ini file, but again it was overridden by the dialog box.

This seems strange as the help documentation states;

SESTL.ini file

The SESTL.ini file, found in the Solid Edge Program folder, is used to store the settings defined on the STL Import Options and STL Export Options dialog boxes. When you make a change to a parameter in the dialog box, a new value is saved to the SESTL.ini file. You can use a text editor, such as notepad, to set these parameters. However, if you edit this file, use extreme caution in setting these parameters. Errors made to this file can adversely affect the quality of the translation. The following is a list of parameters found in the SESTL.ini file.

You could try searching the registry for 'STL' 'mm' 'millimeter' or 'inch' on the off chance there's something there.

Re: Set SESTL.ini

when using the option dialog while saving as STL and due to user rights Solid Edge can't update the sestl.ini file in the Program folder of Solid Edge, a sestl.ini file will be created/modified in the user's profile folder, which then will be used by any SaveAs STL action.

Re: Set SESTL.ini

Independend of any access permissions of the SE Program folder, SE will always look first into the user profile folder for an option file, if it cannot find any, it will use the one in the Program folder. That's why you saw your ini file in the Program folder with the Inch option, while your current options were stored and used in the profile folder.

Re: Set SESTL.ini

Thank you very much, this solved my problem! One last question: is the SESTL.ini per default after installation of solidedge in the Appdata/roaming... folder or does SE at some point create this folder after a specifi userevent?